On Jan. 15, 1535, King Henry VIII...

In 1870, a Thomas Nast cartoon in Harper`s magazine for the first time symbolized the Democratic Party as a donkey.

In 1910, the French Congo was reorganized as French Equatorial Africa.

In 1922, the Irish Free State was established under Michael Collins.

In 1929, civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta. On the same date, the U.S. ratified the Kellogg-Brian peace pact, renouncing war as a means of settling international disputes.

In 1932, France completed pacification of French Morocco.

In 1943, work was completed on the Pentagon building.

In 1967, the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 in the first Super Bowl. The game was played in Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles.

In 1973, citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announced the suspension of bombing, mining, shelling and all other U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam.

In 1974, ''Happy Days,'' which by 1984 was the longest-running sitcom still on the air, premiered on ABC-TV.

In 1976, Sara Jane Moore was sentenced to life in prison for trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford.

In 1978, Israel and Egypt reached a compromise on how to discuss the Palestinian issue at an upcoming foreign ministers meeting.

In 1982, Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter Red Smith died in New Canaan, Conn., at age 76.

In 1983, Meyer Lansky, the reputed financial genius of the underworld, died in New York of cancer. He was 81.